David Jahns
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well, sort of… They say:
“FCP X does not support professional video monitoring.”
It does the same thing the AJA does – turns your pro video monitor into a computer desktop monitor. Obviously, this not ideal. It won’t show you accurate colors, and your external scopes won’t be reading the actual video signal – just an approximation of it.So, if you’re good with guestimating the video output from FCP-X, exporting it, and then laying it off to tape from the Matrox software, where you’ll finally see the true video signal as it’s going down to tape… Let’s hope everything looks good, and is within legal, etc… And if changes need to be made?
Doesn’t sound like a “pro” workflow to me. Anyone who needs tape layoff and pro monitoring needs accurate monitoring.
Not good enough… yet?
David Jahns
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I think the relevant point to this whole NY Times mess is Apple’s cowardice in going to Pogue, rather than, say Gary Adcock or anyone who would know what the hell they were talking about.
That, to me, says LOTS about Apple’s direction and target for FCP-X.
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Might this be Apple’s version of New Coke?
Are we a few weeks away from the announcement of Final Cut “Classic”?
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I could live with the UI, and maybe even learn to love it. Keywords can be quite powerful.
The lack of I/O hardware is terrible, the lack of XML etc is terrible, but the project & media file organization is absolute train wreck for the pro collaborator crowd.
The other stuff could be added at a future update, but the idea of project sharing is, I fear, gone forever.
That, more than anything else, is why I do not have any hope that future updates will give the pro collaboration users what they need in an editing tool.
This isn’t an offline editor, and it isn’t an online editor – it’s “good enough” for low-end, non-broadcast videos, created by one man bands.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but that’s what it is.
“Everything just changed in post.”
Unfortunately, that’s the truest statement made in the last few months from Apple.
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Yeah, I’m with the Russell.
“Trust us, it’s going to be great” is getting a little old. We heard that in April, and if Apple wants the pro side of the business, they need A) pro features, or, if they can’t provide the new features at this time, we need a roadmap and need to know what to expect and when.
These are not impulse purchases like shiny new phones – market those with all the secrecy you want. It’s a cool toy, after all… But even those guys get developer previews of new iOSes.
We’re running a pro facility here in a multi-user environment, and I don’t see anything in the new architecture to make me think this new version is going to work for us – and it goes much deeper than simply XML support.
Apple seems to be banking on the iMac/YouTube user, and maybe they’ll be able to make much better looking videos much easier, but this is not a tool for professionals who COLLABORATE.
It is not an offline editor, and it’s not a professional online tool, either – it’s an awesome tool for the video jack of all trades that shoots digitally, edits & finishes for the web – all on one machine. Great for them!
Maybe someday the proverbial “kid in the basement” will replace the collaborative (and expensive) professional workflow, but Apple has their head in the iClouds if they think this X tool will be used on Oscar nominated movies or broadcast TV.
David Jahns
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Good luck with that, guys!
If $300 is precious to you, then you should have done some research. All of these limitations are well documented in the half dozen articles that have been published in the last 6 hours.
Not that I’m defending the app or it’s lack of pro features, of course.
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Do you have to enter your Apple ID each time? And does it check the network for concurrently running copies?
I want to be able to buy a dozen copies for our company, and install them like serial numbers that the company owns, not with separate Apple ID’s for each workstation.
I have heard Volume Licensing is coming soon, and would work similar to OS X Lion – but no other details.
David Jahns
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Yeah… we have an Editshare and 14 suites/workstations, regularly sharing projects among multiple editors and assistants.
All of the other “pro” stuff – OMF, I/O cards, etc… – I have faith the 3rd parties and future updates will take of those things, but this Core Foundation/architectural stuff is probably a deal-killer for anyone needing a collaborative workflow.
I just don’t see a way to make that happen.
Throw in Apple’s discontinuation of Xserve, and now, Color, STPro, FC Server – and I think they are putting all of their chips in the “single user” workflow, which is fine for 95% of FCP users… just not for us!
David Jahns
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Yeah – the optimist in me thinks, “they have to have thought of this, and they must have a plan, right?”… but then the pessimist takes over and, well, you can imagine where that leads…
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UPDATE:
I have confirmed the monitor is capable of receiving 1080psf23.98 via HDMI – it works fine when going through an SDI to HDMI converter, so it looks like it’s the IO Express that is not outputting a PSF signal via HDMI. Will test with another IO unit and see what happens.
David Jahns
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Portland, OR